07/13/2011
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"We're facing dire circumstances."
"I want to--I'm not proposing we abolish Job Corps. I'm thinking, in trying to work with you and Senator Cochran and others, to improve it."
"It was the worst that we've experienced in my lifetime, and probably in most people's lifetime in the whole South."
"The unemployment rate is 8.8 percent. When you consider the underemployed and those who have stopped looking for work, the real unemployment rate is actually much higher, at 16.2 percent."